Google has built an empire with a search engine that answers your questions, and now the company hopes humans can do the same. Google on Tuesday announced Helpouts, a new tool that connects users via live video chat with experts who can help them wit...

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's second-in-command, isn't at a loss for words when it comes to the issue of getting more women in leadership roles in science, technology and business. Today she's speaking at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Comput...

It's the final day of the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, and LinkedIn, Facebook, Flipboard, Google and Kevin Rose are set to close the show. The Web 2.0 Summit is one of technology's premiere conferences. This year's summit is focused on the impact...

U.S. President Barack Obama has teamed up with LinkedIn for a town hall about creating jobs and growing the economy. The LinkedIn Town Hall is part of the president's effort to promote the American Jobs Act, a bill he introduced earlier this month at...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is about to make some major announcements that will change Facebook as we know it. The social network has been keeping busy in the lead-up to f8, its annual developer conference. In the past few weeks, the company has rev...

President Barack Obama is set to deliver a highly-anticipated speech to a joint session of Congress on his plan to create jobs. The speech, which will begin at 7 PM ET, will be Obama's moment to lay out his plan to kickstart a stagnating economy befo...

Would you rather spend your Saturday trolling Facebook for evidence of your high school bully's misery, or take in a live rock opera about an alien princess's post-apocalyptic hunt for true love? If you're more of a rock opera guy/girl, South African...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premieres on Thursday in London, and fans of the franchise can check out the red carpet action live on YouTube and via Ustream and Livestream. You can check out the Ustream above (or Livestream), or head ov...

Incubus has a new album coming out in July, and instead of doing the usual press tour, the band has decided to set up shop in its hometown of Los Angeles, hosting a livestream to get fans pumped for the new disc. “Incubus HQ Live” kicks off Thursday ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 premieres on July 7 in London, and fans of the franchise can check out the action on the red carpet live on YouTube. The event will go down on YouTube's Harry Potter channel from 8 to 11 p.m. PT and will fe...

UPDATE: The New York Senate has voted to legalize gay marriage by a vote of 33 to 29. It's been one of the hottest topics on the web for the last week, but tonight the New York Senate will finally decide whether gay marriage will be legal in the thir...

The Black Eyed Peas are playing in New York's Central Park Thursday, but you can catch the group's performance whether you live in the Big Apple or not -- in full 360-degree vision. Thanks to the charity Robin Hood Foundation and interactive video co...

Never made it to your college commencement ceremony? (All-night celebratory benders can do that to you.) Never fear. YouTube will be live streaming the graduation ceremonies of two top-tier U.S. schools on Sunday for your nostalgic viewing pleasure. ...

Google is poised to make headlines today as it announces major Android and Chrome-related news at its Google I/O developer conference. Each year, Google brings thousands of people together for a two-day event in San Francisco, where the company teach...

The Royal Wedding has already taken over trending topics across the web, and we can now report that it has broken at least one record: concurrent viewers on Livestream. The company says that its livestream of William and Kate’s wedding topped 300,000...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg are about to interview President Barack Obama in a live town hall from the company's headquarters. Update: although the live event is over, we have pics of the event, Obama and Zuckerberg here. The...

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicks off today and runs through April 17 near Palm Springs, California, but even if you reside in Nowheresville, Nebraska, you can still catch all the action -- on YouTube. Starting at 4:00 p.m. PT, you c...

The Web 2.0 Summit, one of technology's premiere conferences, will be streamed live for the first time since it started in 2004. We've got the live video so you can watch all of the talks. The Web 2.0 Summit brings together some of the web's most pow...

Update: The chat ended at 3:35 p.m. EST. Thank you to those who joined in! -- Rainn Wilson -- a.k.a. Dwight Schrute from The Office-- joins us today at 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT through the wonders of the Internet to talk about, well, the wonders of the...

Country music group the Zac Brown Band will be joining the ranks of Diddy and Lil Wayne this Sunday, September 19 when they become the next celebrities to team up with Ustream. The band will stream a live show from Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, ...

Just two weeks after bringing its live video recording app to Android, Justin.tv has just issued an update to its popular iPhone app that lets iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 users in on the fun. Justin.tv for iPhone now supports live video broadcasts from W...

Imagine streaming video from your Android phone to the web at the click of a button -- no Wi-Fi needed, no painful upload times, no maneuvering back and forth between a handful of apps to shoot and share your video. Today, Justin.tv is making all tha...

Looking for ways to watch the 2011 Emmys Online? Here's the latest: How to Follow the 2011 Emmys Online As per usual, there's no legal way to stream video of the whole 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony live online, but there are a few ways you can use the we...

Last week, rapper Snoop Dogg promoted the social online game Mafia Wars by blowing up an armored truck in the middle of the Nevada desert. Video of the event garnered 2 million live views on Ustream. Las Vegas was recently added as a playable city in...

Facebook, which is already widely used as a platform for distributing live video, is making a play of its own with a new app called Facebook Live. However, unlike services like Ustream and Livestream that offer live video features for Facebook Pages,...

We've heard of people live streaming concerts, movie premieres and all manner of events -- but what about a live stream of a man sleeping? Yup. That's a new one. Still, this isn't just some "day in the life of" deal. Tonight, Seattle’s Swedish Medica...

MySpace and MTV are teaming up to stream live videos of interviews with celebrities like Seth Rogen, Jeff Bridges, Michael Cera and the cast of Glee — plus sneak peeks at unreleased entertainment — during Comic-Con this weekend. The programming will ...

Mashable is proud to present an evening with Bill Cosby and special guests tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. ET live on Ustream, where the legendary actor/comedian/entrepreneur will be premiering his new iPhone App among other surprises. Following a discus...

Video search engine and index Clicker has billed itself as a "TV Guide for television content online" but it hasn't indexed live video streams, a large and important segment of web video. That changes today with the launch of Clicker Live. Clicker Li...

Live video platform Ustream has just rolled out Ustream.jp, the Japanese version of its website. It is the first step in its Asia expansion strategy. The new Ustream.jp is a fully translated version of the service. It comes with all of Ustream's feat...

In the small world of made-for-the-web TV, industry figures and fans alike hoped that the 2010 Streamy Awards would prove to mainstream audiences that made-for-the-web television is the next big thing — an industry of serious artists, fine entertainm...

In February, visitors to the web video site Hulu each watched an average of 2.4 hours of video on the site — a new record. That's just one bit of data from comScore's most recent "Video Metrix" U.S. video report showing that people are watching fewer...

The winners of the 2010 Streamy Awards were announced in a ceremony in Los Angeles this evening. We've got the complete list of winners below. The Streamys are awarded to web TV series by the International Academy of Web Television — they’re similar ...

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